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Thursday, December 26, 2013

It was a very happy Christmas and because I had very little funds this year - my extended family (That I've known for over 2 decades) got their caricatures as a gift! It seems to have been well received - everybody agrees that they are spot on! That's what's nice about doing caricatures of people you know so well - I could have drawn them with my eyes closed!

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Here is an old film I animated and cleaned up completely on paper for Concordia University in 2010. It was finally shot on the Oxberry Camera on 16mm film. Quite an endeavour. I worked on it so long that I no longer thought it was funny... thankfully when it was played in the theater the audience actually DID laugh! More than I expected.

This was the first film that I worked on with a composer, Raz Koren, to custom create the soundtrack. The experience was a lot of fun, and I really feel the music fits perfectly!

Monday, December 9, 2013

I'm
getting more orders for Pinup Caricatures right before Christmas as well. I
would like to use this post to show off one of my favorite pinups, and to take
a bow to the BEST client I ever had! Jen was truly a pleasure to work with. She
is a Skipper on Disneyland's Jungle Cruise, and wanted her pinup to be in
"uniform".

Sunday, December 8, 2013

More Animation! I had a lot of fun with this one. This is a classic Sheridan Animation exercise, but updated. Students used to animate one ball with a tail bounce in and out in perspective. This year we got longer to work on this exercise, but it had to be 2 balls, with tail or ears, that bounce in then interact in the center area, ending with them chasing each other off screen.

My little story was supposed to be flirtatious. I hope that came through. It took me quite some time, 25 seconds goes by fast, but it's a lot of paper! I already know what I would fix... my held cels last too long, and I could have exagerated some moments more, but oh well. I'm still pretty happy with it!

How much paper is 25 seconds of animation with 2 characters? THIS MUCH! ^_^

Christmas is coming, and I'm so happy to be getting more comissions for caricatures! Here's one style that is selling pretty well. It all started at the office, I made caricatures of most of my comrades at work - and the thing caught on!

I think my two favorites are 3rd from the left, my poor poor Producer Antoine, and 2nd from the right, "Jazz" John, a good friend and front-end programmer/Jazz drummer.

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Our last assignment of Character Design from this semester. We had to chose and artist or animator that inspires us and do a 5 minute presentation in front of the class about his life/art style. Then finaly design a character in their style.

I chose Hayao Miyazaki. Obviously I didn't even come close. I love his character development sketches, especially of small children. So for my project, I decided to do a charcter based on my older sister, Iwa. I asked my mom to send me a bunch of pictures of her as a kid for inspiration.

Here is the result.

And just for fun, here are my favorite pictures of kid-Iwa! ^_^

This one served as the inspiration for my storyboard project:

Love this one. Could be little Kiki!

And last but not
least, my all-time favorite picture. This one describes quintessentially our
childhood relationship. Iwa did something evil, and made me cry, but is looking
like a little angel of innocence!

I have managed to make the baking of macarons into a fine art (which is enjoyed by many of my friends). And now I get to put my macarons into a piece of art!

This exercise was meant as a study of glass, fabric and metal. This projects requires two studies. Here is number one. The sequal will come to being this coming weekend! Once again, guache on watercolor paper.

Here was my pose test homework for Character Design at Sheridan. She is a Victorian era socialite, who has not much to do in life but but gossip and drink tea. I would like to animate her - so I think she was a win.